David Stump, ASC, works on numerous motion pictures and television productions as Director of Photography, as Visual Effects Director of Photography and as a Visual Effects Supervisor, garnering Emmy nominations and an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement for Camera Data Capture Techniques.

David’s combined expertise in cinematography, 3D stereography, HD and visual effects has propelled him to the forefront of these industries’ developing technologies. …

David is also a long time advocate of endangered metadata protection from set to post. Read the paper in CreativeCow where Dave describes a possible future for filmmaking — faster, less expensive, and more creative — as cameras and metadata come together.